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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] svn-fe: Use the --report-fd feature
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:11:28 +0200
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Heya,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:03, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> The caller has to take care of backflow of data. =C2=A0Even if the
> "cat" command were never used, at least 3>/dev/null would be
> necessary to avoid fast-import waiting forever for the frontend
> to read from it.

Why is that? If we disable the auto-printing of sha's wouldn't it only
write to the fd iff the cat command is used?

> One way to work around this would be for svn-fe to launch fast-import
> itself.

What would the pipeline look like then? In particular for git-remote-sv=
n?

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier